France’s great champion of freedom dies, reports John Ballantyne.Jean-François RevelScarcely a ripple has appeared in the Australian media to mark the passing of one of the West’s greatest intellectual defenders, the great French writer Jean-François Revel.Revel, who died on April 30 this year, aged 82, made his name during the Cold War as a brilliant author, journalist and polemicist. Against the malice of the West’s foes he mobilised a massive artillery of facts and sheer common …
